Mini-Sodes, Blu-Ray and Top 5s

Things are heating up here at Nerdfire productions. Luke is continuing to put out some great episodes featuring his top and bottom lists of movies including the top 5 movies that you would recommend someone else watching.

Episode 7 of the Nerdfire Podcast is out and kicking. Walsh and Kevin discuss the benefits of 3-D and blu-ray in the theaters and in your own homes. Be sure to tune in next week (yes we are going to be taking Nerdfire weekly) for Special Guest host and Walsh's comic idol Josh Howard (author or Dead @17 and Lost Books of Eve). If you have any questions for Josh post below.

POW WOW just posted Mini-Sode #2 where the Nerdfire crew teams up with podcasting friends Apsana (Sounds Criminal Podcast) and Skolnick (Warcraft Less Traveled) to run the starting Goblin and Worgan zones and share their thoughts on these new questing areas and the effects of these changes in WOW. (Pictures from the runs are soon to come.)

Episode 36, EGO networks, and Some fun in the Office

We are almost through with the Post Editing of Episode 36 of POW WOW, where Joe talks about the Deathwing kill (pictured below) and why the idea of Blizzcon being canceled still is in the front of his mind.

We also have a lot going on with the EGO Networks and highly suggest that every single one of you go to egonetworks.com and check out the news feed and many of the great podcasts there, if you like TOR check out Empire for Life, if you like a great casual WoW podcast listen in to Rewt and Freckle Face on the Hearthcast, and if you are a fan of just guys being the awesome guys that they are, check out Rep Grind Radio.

Rewt from heart cast just linked some pictures and stats from his office where they transformed a cubicle into a Warcraft Battle Zone. Check it out.

It includes:
- Samsung 50" Flat Screen TV - Logitech G13 Programmable Keypad
- Microsoft Ergonomic Keyboard - Logitech G500 Programmable Mouse
- Steelseries Gaming Mousepad - Razer Carcharias Headset -
Altec Lansing Speaker System - Zeus Thunder Hero PC Gaming Chair -
Camo Back Drop

Dragon Soul takes a dive!!!!

There are things that are awesome and things that are bitter awesome. Last night there was zero of the later, on Wednesday night. Not only did we get the Guild achievement clear of Dragon Soul but the two random mounts dropped for us!!!!!!!!! When the mount dropped off Deathwing the guild opted to give the honor to Joe for being such an awesome leader!!!!!

T-Mogg the Bubble Fish Contest!!!!

We have had some great submissions so far to the T-Mogging contest going on until the end of February below are some of the T-mogg sets from the POW WOW crew

Jaybils (Joe) Phd. Pepper (Kevin)

Burninate (Silent John) Oldscratch (Kevin)

Servers down for repair and now we are full steam ahead!!!!!

With the lightning reflexes of a cat (that sits around the house all day waiting to be fed) Walsh jumps to the rescue of our podcast servers and shuts them down before the security was breached and we lost everything. While Walsh was able to keep the current episodes that we had available for download we could not up load or post anything on the servers until everything was reset and recoded. I have no idea what that means but Walsh assured me that over the last couple weeks he has been working really hard and was pissed about the whole situation.

On a happy note we are back and great things are happening all over Nerdfire Productions!

Target Audience podcast has many great episodes in the wings, and the latest one posted talks about a new Pixar movie that is going straight to DVD/Bluray?! Listen to find out more.

Episode 35 of the POW WOW podcast "Hipster WOW players" went live last night and we cover everything from No Blizzcon, Nekkid bull runs, and or course reasons why we suck. Joining us is our Alliance frenemy (Is that how you spell it?) Apsana and the ever silent "Silent" John.

Episode 34: Listeners, Try This at Home

New POW WOW is up and running be sure to check out the new epsiode and post any comments or questions below!!!! Also be sure to check out the Grand Old Podcast episode 34. Kevin joins as a guest host to talk about the new story "Charge of the Aspects" and many other lore opinions about warcraft.
Grandoldpodcast.blogspot.com

Nerdfire has joined the E.G.O

The POW WOW podcast has become a part of the E.G.O Network, and teamed up with a group of really great WoW podcasts. Check out our announcments and some of the other WoW podcasts on egonetworks.com. We are also going to be having guest hosts from the other podcasts and Joe and myself will be appearing as guest hosts on other WoW podcasts.

Episode 34 of POW WOW

We are recording the 34th episode of POW WOW tonight with guest host CJ. Since I don't write the show notes I have no idea what the name of the episode might be but be sure to check it out. Also for those of you who read the Blog I am giving you guys a head start. Thanks to the generousity of one of our listeners and guild mates Highsammy and Tealme we have TWO loot cards to give away of "Bloat the Bubble Fish" (featured below). Since Highsammy and Tealme are part of my T-Mogg crew we thought that it would be appropriate to have a contest of T-mogging. The two best screen shots of your T-mogg set will receive the cards and codes!!!!!!! I will say that thinking outside the Tier sets will earn you some extra points!!!!!!!!

In the New Year!!!!

Man the holidays sure kicked our butts, some call it a vacation personally I am very happy to be back at my quiet job of teaching middle schoolers but I digress. We just posted Episode 33 of the POW WOW podcast: The Return of Silent John. John thankfully had a different work schedule during the holidays and was able to join us again. Also some good news from Walsh he will be getting a new job soon with regular hours (not starting at 3am) and with this we are hoping to start up again the Nerdfire podcast with more guests and shorter more frequent episodes (We don't mean it like that Blizzard fans).

Mean while on the Target audience front Luke challenges guest host Kelly to a resolution of movies. Listen in to see what movies they are requiring each other to watch!!!!

The Darkmoon Faire, Action Stars and Tookie Tookie

Today be sure to check out the very special mini episode of Noob in the Craft #2 featuring sucks noobs as Walsh and our good friend and guildie Matt. We look at the Darkmoon Faire, experiences in Northrend and in the Plaguelands. But don't worry we talk about why we all suck!

Target Audience #13 looks at the best of the best of the best Action stars of all time, check it out and see if you agree with their rankings. Stay on Target for upcoming episodes including a ranking of Pixar and which comics made the best movies.

Please leave any comments, questions or topics that you would like discussed on any or all of our shows below and we will be sure to talk about it.

Ulduar, Armada and Fat Geese

Posted above and Below are pictures from the T-Mogger runs, we are especially proud of the Ulduar 10 Drake achievement that we received last night. Also coming very soon with be Episode 32 of the POW WOW podcast featuring Armada from the Horde for Life podcast! Be sure to check it out.


Coming up in December we are going to be releasing some great mini episodes to get us through the holidays and still ahve time to enjoy the family festivities. Be sure to visit the Darkmoon faire and enjoy the in game Winter's Veil festival.

New Stuff, Pilgrim's Bounty and the Holiday Season!

So many things are happening with the Nerdfire Productions Podcasts we dare you to try to keep up!!!! Episode 31 (a Thanksgiving Episode) of the POW WOW podcast is newly up for Download. The Target Audience is bringing in the guest hosts and great topics with Episode 11 the movies you thought would be good but sucked in the box office, and Episode 12 in which Luke crys?

Remember Warcraft fans that 4.3 is dropping tomorrow the 29th, so good luck and have fun with the gear and content!

On a side note when I went to movies with my family the other day I saw a display for Star Wars Episode 1 in 3-D!!!!!!!! Question to our listeners: Is this taking the 3-D and rehashing Star Wars prequels too far?

For the Alliance!

Three words that you probably thought that you would never read on this blog, but here they are. We at Nerdifre Productions are not defecting or anything that drastic but we did have some Alliance ambassadors on Episode 29. Skolnick from the insanely popular Podcast Warcraft Less Traveled and his guild mate and friend of the show Apsana from the Sounds Criminal podcast joined us for some lively discussions about Warcraft news and the conflict between our respective factions. Check out the great cast that is live right now!

Post any questions, comments, or contributions that you might have about this episode below!

POW WOW Episode 28 and more

Going live today is Episode 28 of the POW WOW podcast! Please post below any comments, questions or contributions that you would like us to read on the show or answer.

Also since the recording of the show there have been some changes to the Patch notes and two things have popped up that I did not see coming. There have been buffs to DK tanks and bear Druids!!!!!!! Bears get 10% (now 20%) more Stamina when in Bear mode and Death Knights get 25% more armor (now 55%)! That is really going to help smooth out the DK damage intake so that they don't play the mana sponge and I have to say the melee DPSers aren't going to be happy trying to take down a Blood DK flag carrier in BGs :)

Here is my question for the community. Do you think these changes are going to be enough to make DK and Bear tanks viable in 4.3? Are these changes just a bandaid until they can do the major surgery required in 5.0.1?

Blizzcon, POW WoW NOW! and epsiode 28

So Joe and I have returned from Blizzcon and the whirlwind or awesome that it was! There are some major things to talk about and we just brushed the surface of it with the POW WoW Now! Check it out and post your comments and thoughts below.

We also just recorded last night Episode 28 of POW WoW and talk about the upcoming faction conflict, the dungeon challenge system and of course which pets we are going to throw into the arenas of Azeroth.

Remember we have a contest going and a free in game pet, that maybe can battle, to the listener who can most accurately guess (without going over) the ilevel requirement for the Looking for Raid Finder in 4.3.

Post thoughts, comments, questions below!

Blizzcon and much much more!!!

The lastest Target Audience is out and hear a new guest host and Luke talking about Christopher Gest movies!!!! Also in rapid succession because we can there are two new POW WOWs one featuring our good friend Scholnik.

Tonight we are going to be recording the next Nerd Fire where we talk about the books that ignite us and be on the look out for our Holloween Special Nerd Fire with Artest and friend Brain Baugh, author and illustrator of the Wulf and Batsy series.

Post below your thoughts, contirbutions and reactions to our shows below and be sure to tune in on Saturday morning for the first POW WOW NOW live recorded after the first day of Blizzcon!

If you thought we make up our rants, you are mistaken...Joe just ranted about how broken the BG random group system is...5 freakin' rogues, no healers, no flag carrier in a Warsong Gulch.  How do you win this? 

Trifecta of Awesome!

If you go to itunes and type in Nerdfire on the search you will find three new episodes from Nerdfire Productions

POW WOW 25: where we talk about our favorite raid bosses and guest host Frankie joins in on the fun!

Nerdfire 4: Video Games all day and all night! Check it out.

Target Audience 6: Join Luke and Shaun talking about TV shows that should have been canceled long before they were.

Post your thought, ideas and comments for any of these shows below!

Our nemesis...he will die soon, very very soon.  Jaybils is now obsessed with downing him.  I can't wait to tell of the tale of his defeat!

Great time to be a Geek

A coupel things that have been around that I would like to speak about.

First off if you are a Starcraft fan I came across an epic battle from the Nvidea tournament that is going on right now. Follow the linked video below to have your mind blown

www.youtube.com/watch?v=rR9PtJzA3w8

Also a huge grats to those people out there who have gotten a chance to be a part of the Diablo 3 Beta. I have seen the videos on youtube that people have posted playing the game and for the most part I like the classes but I am going to turn up my nose at a small thing. It looks and seems like plays, exactly like Diablo 2. Now I know that you are going to say. "Kevin, Diablo 2 played just like Diablo 1 and you were cool with it! So quick your complaining" I know, I know, but there wasn't about 11 years between Diablo 1 and 2, I don't know what I was expecting from this game but it jut seems like more of the same as what we had with a huge graphics upgrade. The story better be freakin rediculous and the new class the msot stellar thing ever to justify the wait, because if they are not I would have expected this kind of a game about 8 years ago.
If you got in on the Diablo 3 Beta I would love to talk to you about your impressions because I know there is a huge difference to watching a game on Youtube and actually playing the game myself.

We are going to be recording POW WOW episode 25 tomorrow (Friday) so alot of the new stuff from WOWI am going to be talking about on the show, but if there is anything that you would like me to add to the show notes or any points, quips, or suck moments that you would like to share please send them to our email powwow@nerdfireproductions.com or drop them into the comments below.

Noob in the Craft featuring Walsh and a guest will be cominig out tomorrow or late tonight so be looking for that!!!!!!

POW WOW 24 and TA 5 are on the books

Check out the latest epsiodes of POW WOW and target Audience and put your comments questions and suggestions below!!!!!

POWWOWPS

In the latest episode I predicted that the nerf to Firelands would go boss by boss over the next serveral weeks before 4.3 drops. I was wrong. Int he last day or so it has been released that all of Firelands was nerfed to the tune of 15% to 25% in both normal and heroic modes. So go in there and get those kills!!!!!!! more details about what changes they made in the next POW WOW.

Ready for Brewfest

Coming up on September 20th Brewfest starts in Warcraft and damn am I ready for it now!!!!!! Big shout out to my Cousins and their ladies for a rocking birthday present!!!!!!!!

A New Day a New Time Sink!!!

Big news from Steam.com. Apparently between now and September 20 you can download and play on your PC or Mac the game Portal for free. That's right you Portal fans that only started playing it when Portal 2 came out if you want to enjoy the first games awesomeness now is the time to "buy".

On a side note. Tomorrow (Saturday) the Nerdfire crew is going to be busting out soem great episodes and minisodes for your listening pleasure. Stay tuned for more info.

Target Audience and POW!!!!!

Check it out check it out, great and wonderful things are happening with the Nerdfire Productions company!!!!!

This week Joe sat down at the POW WOW with Associate Editor at PC Gamer Magazine Josh Augustine and good friend and intern at PC Gamer Greg, to talk about WOW and the MMO community. Check it out coming out today!!! Kevin was unable to join them this week because we was huddle next to a hand crank radio surrounded by candles communing with the Spirits so that they will turn his power back on.

Also sure to listen to Episode 4 of the Target Audience podcast where Luke and guest host Shaun talk about the 5 worst sports movies of all time!!!!!! See how your list compares and post some that you would add to the list below.

And, Nerdfire reached another milestone today! We got our first sponsor!!!! Audible the internet's largest audio book company has sponsored our PoW WoW Podcast! Please support us by using audible for your audiobook needs. You get a free 14 day trial, and 1 audiobook download of your choosing. There is no obligation passed 14 days and if you don't like the service, you can keep the free book and cancel anytime! Make sure you use Audibletrial.com/Powwow so they know who sent you! Please support us!!!

Nerdfire 3D Episode is up and running

Hope you guys enjoy this fantastic epsiode with Guest host Karin!!!!!!! Next episode's breaking the Murcury will be the video games that changed your life and the games that everyone loves and yet you hate with a "firey" passion. Post your comments and ideas below....ENJOY!!!!!

Top of the Line: Dungeon Edition

Ok first off I am a noob and do not know how to make this a "polling" post about the top dungeons in warcraft. I am going to try to do this on the General forums of the guilds website Nerdfire.guildportal.com so check it out!!!!

Also "Episode 2: Bats on the Brain" of the Target Audience podcast is life on itunes go listen to it today!!!! And "Episode 22: Banana Shoulders" is live a kicking as one of our longest and best episodes featuring guest host Skolnick from the "Warcraft Less Traveled" podcast. Enjoy both of these great great episodes!!!!!!

Min/Max Time: Decked to the Nines

I am going to be posting here the articles that I write for the Overraided Blog. Check it out and comment below.

Today’s article is going to be breaking a little from the norm of maximizing your new gear, experience and financial gain in comparison with time. Today I am going to delve into one of the most captivating parts of the 4.3 news that we have heard so far, Transmogrification (here on referred to as Transmog or Mogging if I get truly lazy).

I have been inspired to write this from the discussion that I and the other hosts of the POW W.O.W podcast had last night while recording. Since hearing of this new ability coming up in the patch I always thought of it in the light of I am going to make my character look as purely epic as possible. I will go back to Black Temple on my Paladin and get the Bulwark shield off of Illidan. Travel to Naxx and get the axe “Last Laugh” from Kel’Thusad. Go into the Scarlet Monastery and find the chest piece that looks like their tabard…..You get the ideaJ. While we were talking about the “epic” gear that you could go back and farm Joe threw out a mind blowing idea. What if you make all your gear look like level 6 grey gear. Make that 2-handed mace from Firelands look like “The Mallet”? Think about the Role Player’s dream to not only be able to sport the epic gear to run instances, but do it looking like you are decked to the nines in Bloodsail Buccaneer gear. You could have an entire raid in tuxes and evening gowns. The hilarity and options span soooo far past that of “I want to look like Tier 2”. Let your creativity do its worst/best.

Now I know that this is a lot to process right now but keep a couple things in mind if you are like me and need to kill raid bosses to get the gear you need.

1. Atlas Loot is your friend, it’s a library of all the gear in Warcraft…use it

2. Some raids can be soloed figure out which ones and get it done

3. Some raids you must have a group. Kealthas cannot be soloed (not that I know of). Less is more when it comes from grouping, but make sure that you bring as many as you truly need.

4. When you group tell people which items you have on “reserve” nothing is more painful than losing a roll on the one piece of gear that you wanted from BT

5. Some fights cannot be won by brute force. Lady Vash is still a raid killer because people don’t know the mechanics, read the strats before you rush in

Follow these steps of finding, optimizing your grouping, reserving the gear and knowing the fight and you will get your toon looking as “Perfect” as you want in a very short amount of time.

P.S To those of you crafters that can make fun RP clothes, get the old school mats and start crafting…It could be worth a lot come 4.3

Post what gear you are going to get or a screen shot of the look that you want for your toon. The "Best" Look gets a sign Tony Washington print!!!!!!!